Through evolution, plant life and blue and green algae evolved and began pulling the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by photosynthesis. As their population grew, more CO2 was consumed.

The atmosphere became cooler, and other carbon-based organisms such as zooplankton, phytoplankton and diatoms would evolve, die, be rapidly buried and pressure-cooked for 1 to 2 million years, creating oil. The carbon-based oil combines with oxygen when burned to create CO2.

The CO2 that made our planet uninhabitable is being forced back by burning the organisms that extracted it.

Those who point to a recent Republican report from the Senate should consider the scientists it is counting, including the ones who receive millions of dollars from companies like Exxon-Mobil to publish junk science.